North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
Powerful
think tank prepares report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, Canada
Posted: May 24, 2007
WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn
and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry
Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and
U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into
one political, economic and security bloc.
The final report,
published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all
three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for
Strategic & International Studies .
CSIS boasts of playing
a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994
– a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the
early stages of the European Community on its way to becoming the European
Union.
"The results of
the study will enable policymakers to make sound, strategic, long-range policy
decisions about North America, with an emphasis on regional integration,"
explains Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, director of
CSIS' Mexico Project. "Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed
examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve
six areas of critica
The data collected for
the report is based on seven secret roundtable sessions involving between 21
and 45 people and conducted by CSIS. The participants are politicians, business
people, labor leaders and academics from all three countries with equal
representation.
All of this is described
in a CSIS report, "North American Future 2025
Project."
Continental currency
all the rage
Posted: May 24, 2007
On Monday, Bank of
Canada Gov. David Dodge told the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs that North America could one day move
toward a euro-style currency.
Dodge's comments add
to a growing list of comments from Canadian economists, academics and
government officials supporting the idea of creating the amero
as a North American common currency.
Dodge argued a common
North American currency would help buffer the adverse effects of exchange rate
fluctuations between the Canadian dollar and the U.S. dollar.
"The free flow of
people across national borders will undoubtedly continue throughout the world
as well as in North America, as will the social, political and economic
challenges that accompany this trend," says the report. "In order to
remain competitive in the global economy, it is imperative for the twenty-first
century North American labor market to possess the flexibility necessary to
meet industrial labor demands on a transitional basis and in a way that
responds to market forces."
As
WND reported last week, the controversial "Secure Borders,
Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007," which would grant
millions of illegal aliens the right to stay in the U.S. under certain
conditions, contains provisions for the acceleration of the Security
and Prosperity Partnership, a plan for North American economic and
defense integration with remarkable similarities to the CSIS plan.
Previously, WND
reported Steve Previs, a vice president at
Jeffries International Ltd., in London, told CNBC Nov. 27, 2006, the amero "is the proposed new currency for the North
American Community, which is being developed right now between Canada, the
U.S., and Mexico."